What does 'ours' here refer to? '(An) environment'? '(A) condition'? Or '(a) world'? Many of us live in a noisy and polluted environment where we have to close our senses. Many live alone in the crowd,

Good. Thanks, Jim. Now, related to this topic, about this one, do you think the second 'create' is intransitive or transitive? Human beings can create in the ways they have never created before.

Does this sentence sound natural? That's the way I don't like it.

Thanks for the great rephrasing, GG!

What does 'Heaven can wait' really mean?

I see. Need to think about it for myself for a while. Thanks, Clive.

So Clive, do you still think it's #1, or it could also be #2; in other words, it's ambiguous?

I should have said 'the parents are wrong' instead; parents shouldn't have such an expectation before the full development of the children's bodies and brains.

Hmm...isn't it that if the expectation is before the development, it's wrong (i.e. #2)? Do you think it's necessary to say 'for it to be able to do them'? Not really, in my opinion.

Parents often make the mistake of expecting a child to do certain things before its body and brain have developed enough for it to be able to do them . About the part in bold, which part does it modify? 1. do certain things 2. expecting a child